Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty
After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…
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This thematic thread examines recent scholarship on the history of human rights. Curated by Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte.
EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we…
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REDUX: In Search of Hope #HumanRights
On April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of…
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An Anniversary as a Laboratory
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…
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Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from…
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Book Launch
The University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights. The…
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Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to…
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Introducing ‘Textbook Narrative of Origins’
Where does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this history and what can…
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Thematic week: History of Human Rights
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
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REDUX: Who is afraid of #HumanRights in Russia?
Russian politics fare well in keeping conflicting stories alive. Sir Winston Churchill famously said that the Soviet Union is a “riddle wrapped in a…
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The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s
Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of the idea of “human…
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Charlesworth and Larking discuss their new book on the UN Universal Periodic Review
Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She is also an Australian Research Council Laureate…
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